End-gate.



PATENTED JAN. 13 1903. A. J; DIGGINS.

END GATE.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 25, 1902.

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ALEXANDER J. 'DIGGINS, OF HARVARD, ILLINOIS.

EN D-GATE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 718,196, dated January 13, 1903.

Application filed July 25, 1902. Serial No. 116,985. N mod l-l To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALEXANDER J. Dreams, a citizen of the United States, residing at Harvard, in the county of McHenry and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful End- Gate, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in end-gates.

The object of the present invention is to improve the construction of end-gates for wagonbodies and to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efficient device for enabling the endgates of the top box and the wagon -body proper to be firmly connected and arranged at an inclination to form a shoveling-board.

The invention consists in the construction and novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claims hereto appended.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective View of a portion of a wagon-body provided with upper and lower end-gates constructed in accordance with this invention and arranged to forina shoveling-board. Fig. 2 is a similar view, the upper and lower end-gates being closed. Fig. 3 is a detail view of one of the wings. Fig. 4 is a sectional view illustrating the manner of interlocking the wings with the upper and lower end-gates.

Like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in all the figures of the drawlngs.

1 and 2 designate upper and lower endgates of a top box 3 and wagon-body 4, provided at their outer faceswith vertical straps or bars 5 and 6, and the latter are provided between their ends with rectangular bends 7 and 8, adapted to receive a transverse rod 9. The transverse rod 9, which is preferably squared to prevent it from rotating, has a threaded end 11 and extends outward beyond the sides of the top box and the wagon-body and is adapted to be arranged in horizontal slots or recesses 12 and 13 of the top box and a wagon-body. The sides of the top box and the Wagon-body are providedwith vertical bars 14 and 15, reinforcing the parts, and provided with slots or recesses to register with those of the top box and the wagon-body and having enlargements at the outer ends of the slots or recesses, as shown, to prevent the rod end-gate is subjected to a heavy strain. The threaded end of the rod is provided with a tail-nut 16, having an arm or handle to enable it to be readily rotated.

The lower straps or bars 8 are provided with extended curvedends' 17, which project into slots 18'of the bottom of the wagon-body and which are curved for engaging the latter. These projecting portions of the lower straps hinge the lower edge of the lower end-gate to the bottom of the wagon-body and permit the end-gates to be arranged at an inclination to form a shoveling-board, as illustrated in Fig. 1 of the drawings.

The upper and lower end-gates are connected by wings 19, provided at their abutting edges with hooks 20, preferably formed integral with straps or bars 21, which are secured to the inner faces of the wings and which reinforce the same. The hooks extend into slots 22 of the upper and lower endgates and engage transverse plates 23, which extend across the slots at points between the ends thereof. with the upper and lower end-gates when the latter are in a vertical position and the hooks are introduced into the slots or recesses 22 at points above the transverse plates and are moved downward into engagement with the same. The wings are connected with the sides of the top box by means of chains 24, having their outer ends linked into eyes 25 of the outer or upper straps or bars 21, and the inner ends of the chains adjustably engage hooks 26, formed integral with plates which are bolted or otherwise secured to the inner faces of the sides of the top box. The strain on the chains will retain the wings firmly interlocked with the end-gates and will enable the same to be lowered to the position illustrated in Fig. 1 to form a shoveling-board and there will be no liability of the parts becoming accidentally separated. The wings are reinforced by longitudinal cleats 27, and the end-gates may be also reinforced by bars or cleats 2S, and their inner faces may be lined with sheetmetaLif desired.

It will be seen that the device is exceedingly simple and inexpensive in construction, that the wings are detachably interlocked with the upper and lower end-gates, and that from accidentally slipping outward when the The wings are interlocked when the latter are lowered to an inclined position to form a shoveling-board the pressure or strain to which the parts are subjected operates to hold the parts firmly in engagement.

What I claim is- 1. In a device of the class described, the combination with a wagon-body and a top box, of upper and lowerend-gates, the lower end-gate being hinged to the wagon-body, and wings detachably interlocked with and rigidly connecting the upperandlowerend-gates and holding the same together when the end-gates are arranged to form a shoveling-board, said wings being carried by the end-gates in the upward-and-downward movement of the latter.

2. In a device of the class described, the combination of upper and lower gates, wings detachably interlocked with and rigidly connecting the upper and lower end-gates and carried by the same, and supporting means connected with the wings whereby the latter are held together when arranged to form a shoveling-board.

3. In a device of the class described, the combination of upper and lower end-gates provided with sockets, wings provided with hooks fitting within the sockets and detachably interlocked with the end-gates, and supporting means arranged to hold the hooks in engagement with the end-gates when the latter are arranged to form a shoveling-board, substantially as described.

4. In a device of the class described, the combination of upper and lower end-gates provided with slots, plates extending across the slots, wings provided with hooks fitting in the slots and engaging the plates, and means for supporting the end'gates when the same are arranged to form ashoveling-board, substantially as described.

5. In a device of the class described, the combination with side-boards having slots, of an end-gate provided with vertical straps or bars having rectangular loops, a rod rectangular in cross-section arranged in the loops and extending through the slots, said rod being provided with a threaded portion, and a nut arranged on the threaded portion, substantially as described.

6. In a device of the class described, the combination with side-boards having slots, of bars secured to the side-boards and provided with slots and having lugs or enlargements at the outer ends thereof, straps or bars secured to the end-gate and provided with rectangular loops or bends, a squared rod arranged within the loops or bends and extending through the slots and having a threaded portion, and a nut arranged on the threaded portion of the rod, substantially as described.

7. In a device of the class described, the combination with a wagon-body and a top box provided at opposite sides with slots, of upper and lower end-gates provided with straps or bars having rectangular loops or bends, the lower bars being provided with means for engaging the wagon-body for hinging the lower end-gate to the same, slotted plates secured to the wagon-body and the top box, a transverse rod provided with a nut and adapted to engage the loops or bonds of the bars of the end-gate, wings detachably interlocked with the end-gates, and chains connected with the wings and adapted to support the end-gates when the same are arranged to form a shoveling-board, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

ALEXANDER J. DIGGINS.

Witnesses:

MERToN J. EMERSON, W. O. WIGGINS. 

